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"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."
"Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information."
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
"Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
"Light up the darkness."
"We are born not to be perfect, but to learn and reflect from imperfections"
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."
"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life."
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"I had six honest men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who."
"Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning."
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
"It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."
"I am still learning."
"Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it."
"Gold has a price, but learning is priceless."
"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
"Education is not preparation; education is life itself."
"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less."
"Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can. There will always come a time when you will be grateful you did."
"You do not learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and falling over."
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
"All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher."
"It is the art of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"Much to learn, you still have."
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
"Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get."
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."